After crossing the border back into Sweden the rest of our drive to Stockholm was disappointingly free of rock concerts, car crashes and bar lock-ins. Driving in Sweden was a relaxing change mostly because their roads are at least twice as wide as those in Norway. It's as if huge sections of Norwegian highway were transplanted across the border. The average 1 lane road had huge but unmarked shoulders wide enough to fit at least 3 more cars.
Another peculiarity of the Scandinavian road system is the precision of their road signs, all of which are accurate to 0.1 of a kilometer. Reindeer crossing, next 0.4km - 3.6km stated one sign. Any reindeer caught crossing outside of this zone are no doubt captured and shipped directly to the north pole, where they're given stupid names and forced to drag around a fat man in a sleigh.
After 13 days and about 2700km on the road, we rolled in Stockholm and dropped our little Aygo back at the Hertz dealership. Although it wasn't the strongest performer uphill and took several minutes to get from 0 to 60, this did result in impressive fuel economy, despite the fact that Chris rarely took it above second gear. Driving a car which gets almost 20 kilometers to the litre is quite handy when each litre costs A$2.50.
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Surely comments on the width of roads should be null and void when delivered by a man who's house has the NARROWEST driveway in Australia (it's near impossible to park the Elantra in a position that allows access to all 4 of it's doors at the same time).
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